Tag Archives: EC2

Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Caching Tier

Last week I discussed the application tier and the implementation considerations that come into play with regard to promoting the availability and resiliency of that tier of your architecture. Here, in the third article in my series on Architecting Scalable … Continue reading

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Four Steps to Achieving High Availability in the Cloud

Constructing a high-availability application in the cloud can seem like a daunting process. The key is to assume that every component of a system will fail at some point and to prepare for that eventuality. Then you can build for … Continue reading

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Managing Cloud At Scale: Configure Systems not Servers

RightScale works with customers that manage some of the world’s largest public and private cloud deployments –understanding their needs to manage at scale is what drives the development of many our automation features. These valuable features don’t necessarily make it … Continue reading

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RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch

The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading

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Ending the Year with a bang! 5 new clouds managed by RightScale

What a year it’s been!  We’ve released a lot of really cool features, including a MultiCloud API and many MultiCloud ServerTemplates.  To round out the year, last week, we launched 5 new public clouds that are available on the RightScale … Continue reading

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Applying Security Workarounds in the RightScale Universe

In a recent post I discussed some of the options for patch management in the RightScale platform, this time I will talk about what happens when a patch is not available through traditional patch channels from the vendor. This typically … Continue reading

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Microsoft .NET Stack Released

This is the Final post in our release series…following both our dashboard and ServerTemplates releases.  Today we’ll talk about a unique solution we now support…let’s get started… Drum roll please…Introducing the auto-scaling, high availability .NET Stack on Amazon! Some of … Continue reading

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RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…

This is Part Two of our release series.  A couple weeks ago, we announced a lot of goodies and while we’re going to talk about some new stuff today, be sure to come back next week for more about our … Continue reading

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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

[This is Phil Cox's first blog post since he joined us as Director of Security and Compliance. We hope to have more from him to post in the near future! -Thorsten] Security testing is one aspect of a security program … Continue reading

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RightScale Release: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9

When a systems or software engineer is learning a new language, a plethora of examples to learn from is invaluable. The cloud currently feels like a new software language to many – new constructs, better tools, rewritten rules. RightScale has … Continue reading

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